Some things never change. What can you recall from the past that's still the same

[MAD RACER]

AAaaaah now this is showing my age lol.

Ok to me these items are pretty much the same from my earlier days of r/c.

Tamiya Box wrench

Tamiya small cans of PS paints

Tamiya style wheel nuts are now a industry standard.

540 motors are still the same dimensions ( which is great for modern electrics in a vintage car)

Servo's are still the basic dimensions for 90% of makes out there.

The Futaba rx plug is now a industry standard ( for good reason too)

Battery foot print  of a 7.2v  is still very close with the new lipo. ( Yes li po a re a little longer but not by much)

What hasn't changed for you. ??

[Mad Ax]

Interesting thread - especially the box wrench and wheel nuts!  It's actually the exceptions that prove the rule - my Associated B4.1 Worlds uses machine screws to secure the front wheels, and the rear nuts don't have the flange that the Tamiya has.  My latest purchase, a 3Racing Sakura D4 CS drift chassis, doesn't come with nylock wheel nuts, instead they are flanged and knurled.  I think some HPI touring cars may be like this too.  The Associated and the Sakura both came with plastic box wrenches, not metal ones, and neither will stand up to the same level of above.

(Interestingly, the Sakura comes with a really useful plastic rod end wrench, a took for popping rod ends on and off, a turnbuckle wrench and even a pair of flimsy plastic pliers.)

Very early 540 motors were also a slightly different size, as evidenced when you try to fit a new 540 silvercan into an original SRB - something that continues to catch people out today!

 

For me tho, very little is the same - mostly because technology has moved on but also because I now have the budget to have the fleet I want, rather than scraping together just enough used parts to cobble a rough, almost-runner together for weekend trips to the countryside with my family.

Things which are the same now as they were then are less tangible and more experience:

• The further I am from a spares shops, the more likely I am to break something.
• I will always discover, on a Friday evening before a Saturday event, that I'm missing an important part
• Cheap components will wear or break quickly and will be a false economy
• Some expensive components will also wear or break quickly and will be a false economy
• Some components are just prone to wear and breakage no matter the cost - live with it
• The excitement before heading off on a solo jaunt with an RC wears off quickly, making it a disappointing experience
• The trepidation before heading off to an RC event with a bunch of friends or even total strangers quickly turns into joy and delight, making it a rewarding experience

 

[markbt73]

I still rush through a new build to see the thing sitting on its feet as quickly as possible. You'd think I would have learned by now to savor it, but no...

And I still hate mounting tires and trimming Lexan bodies. My two least favorite chores in this hobby.

[Supercoolnothing]

The moment of trepidation when you start to remove masking materials and praying that there's no paint bleeding underneath. 

The feeling that you get when you break a part, replace it and then five minutes later break the replacement part. 

 

[Mad Ax]

48 minutes ago, markbt73 said:

I still rush through a new build to see the thing sitting on its feet as quickly as possible. You'd think I would have learned by now to savor it, but no...

I do exactly the same, almost every time.  I usually buy a kit with the intention of putting it on the shelf to save for a "rainy day build".  Then for some reason I decide I want to go to an event and I need whatever shelf kit built for that event.  And usually I decide this when I'm snowed under at work, with loads of commitments at home, and desperate to be doing anything but building kits.  Ergo I end up rushing the build, pulling late nights and early mornings and lunchbreaks to finally get it just about cobbled together on the morning of the event.

I need to be doing the Buggython just to experience the "build, paint, race" mentality put together in one weekend.

[MadInventor]

The hotshot still looks as good as it did 30 years ago, and I like it just as much now as I did back then.

 

[jeekelemental]

My inability as body painter...

[chevelle]

My love of pulling thing's apart and putting them back together  Although I have several NIB kit's to build, I still prefer to bring my vintages back to their best first 

[GooneyBird]

• I still get anxious when running RC cars by myself somewhere. Still feels weird doing that after all these years.
• The smell of Tamiya PS paint.
• I still manage to stick my forehead to my desk and two fingers in my ears every time I try to glue tires. (Don't ask me how I end up in that position. I just somehow naturally do)
• Tamiya plugs take far too much force to pull apart once they've gotten nice and warm a few times. Usually this ends up with me scraping my knuckles against every sharp object on the chassis.
• Body clips live in an alternate dimension. Every time you need them, they're gone. They fall off of cars and your desk and disappear into this void, but then when you put your socks on weeks later you find two of them in your right sock.

[mr crispy]

Oh yes, just putting the finishing touches to a new build or old restored kit and managing to fire your last body clip across the room/garden/field never to be seen again.... and the replacements take aaaaaaggggggeeeeesssss to arrive 🙄

Even better if on the first attempt it slipped up under your fingernail and gave you a little Vietcong bamboo torture experience 😬

[March75]

Opening a new kit box and smelling the rubber  - or is that just me?!

[zakspeed]

10 minutes ago, March75 said:

Opening a new kit box and smelling the rubber  - or is that just me?!

Nope I think we all do that !!

Some from me

The manuals - still pretty much follow the same format and graphics

The fact they are still kits and not prebuilt (ok forget about the XB versions)

CVA shocks still basically the same

Aerial tubes

Hex drive for the wheels and the little pins that always make a bid for freedom.

Ally pinions

Plastic bearings - why !!

servo savers - still the same basic design

7.2v ni-cad battery taking 15/20 minutes to charge (i still remember the slow charger though !!)

when you run them - the same questions, how fast does it go? my mate has one that does a zillion miles an hour (yeah ok)

Transmitter design - still pretty much the same (other than the wheel type - i do miss my old Futaba Magnum!!)

 

[Wooders28]

The one thing I'm glad hasn't changed, the feeling I get when I place down a fully charged car and about to use it (after a , left, right, forward, reverse ritual),  except now I put my phone on flight mode first! (Dont tell the wife that bit though, just poor reception...... 🙄) 

[TurnipJF]

My mates having faster cars than me...

[Pablo68]

The Tamiya Hornet chassis.

No really.

[Dojo Dave]

The original Wild Willy still makes me smile when I play with it...... yes I smile when I play with my Willy. more so when my wife asks for ago, she can't understand why I'm better at it than her.... so I tell her I've been playing with it longer than you... 

[moffman]

The fantastic paint job for the body on whatever model I'm building I have in my head that turns out completely different when it's applied to said body !

[TwistedxSlayer]

For me it's the prices.

 

i remember getting my 1st Tamiya, (admittally it was only in 2000) and it was around £160 for the kit, charger, radio gear, and battery.

And it's still around £160 for the same gear.

[mr crispy]

On 17/12/2016 at 0:41 AM, Wooders28 said:

The one thing I'm glad hasn't changed, the feeling I get when I place down a fully charged car and about to use it (after a , left, right, forward, reverse ritual),  except now I put my phone on flight mode first! (Dont tell the wife that bit though, just poor reception...... 🙄) 

"Flight mode" now that I must remember! 😉

[moffman]

On 17/12/2016 at 0:41 AM, Wooders28 said:

The one thing I'm glad hasn't changed, the feeling I get when I place down a fully charged car and about to use it (after a , left, right, forward, reverse ritual),  except now I put my phone on flight mode first! (Dont tell the wife that bit though, just poor reception...... 🙄) 

Flight mode is perfect for those peaceful times over the park but make sure you don't stand anywhere near ya 1/1 car because the Bluetooth on ya car doesn't go to flight mode (well mine doesn't as I've found out) 

[Wooders28]

11 minutes ago, moffman said:

Flight mode is perfect for those peaceful times over the park but make sure you don't stand anywhere near ya 1/1 car because the Bluetooth on ya car doesn't go to flight mode (well mine doesn't as I've found out) 

Thanks for the heads up!

I'm going to have to start taking my tin foil hat off and wrapping the phone in that! 😉😄

(Before 'flight mode' I actually used to take my butties to work in tin foil, and wrap the phone in the foil once I'd taken them out, only way to make sure I got my break!)

 

[bigoggy]

Opening the kit, and being unable to resist putting the tyres on the wheels immediately.

[Supercoolnothing]

14 minutes ago, bigoggy said:

Opening the kit, and being unable to resist putting the tyres on the wheels immediately.

I do exactly the same thing whenever I get a new kit. 

[Jason1145]

Hunting in the dark for spat out dog bones... this never changes!

[Ian_Gsi16V]

Going out, planning on a decent run only to break something within this first couple of minutes and having a head home!